English Explanatory Dictionary

brave new world

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A better, often utopian (future) world.
  2. A terrible, often oppressive or dystopian world.

Word forms

brave new world brave new worlds

Etymology

From the title of Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel Brave New World, itself a reference to a line from The Tempest (1610), see quotations.

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